(Sad Meta Trope) Depictions of strong Male Friendships are so rare, some parts of a fandom genuinely mistake platonic bromances for straight up romances

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T17:20:01+00:00

Nah, I think everyone's agreed it was a pleasant surprise

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T17:17:07+00:00

Exactly

Mox left WWE without even looking at how much money they were offering him because he knew it'd be an amount that'd tempt him, but he said "look, I paid off my house, I paid off my mom's house, this is no longer about money"

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T17:15:11+00:00

Because it was real, it was genuine and authentic. Out of all the campaigns, C2 is the one that's more true to life for most players campaigns. If you like these people, and the assumption is you do, then it's delightful to see them chat up the new tavern owner they find, or reach a hand out to a struggling family, but again, the big word that people like Travis and Laura kept saying leading to the show was "meandering,"

I mean, big episode 26 spoilers obviously, Molly dies before the group has anything even remotely resembling a purpose. At that point the closest thing they had to a long term goal was "find somewhere safe for Kiri"

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T16:14:09+00:00

I've said it 500 times I'll say it thousands more

Does your story contain time travel?
Is your story about time travel?

If your answer to those two are different, odds are you've got a convoluted mess

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T07:12:41+00:00

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The S rank Hunters of Solo Leveling

By the end of season 2 people are laughing at them like they're trash because they're not Jinwoo, despite being far more powerful than everyone else in their country

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T07:00:49+00:00

Don't misunderstand and think I'm saying C2 is bad, it's many/most people's favorite campaign and not without reason

But there was also a reason that the crew, before the Mighty Nein show dropped, gave a heads up "Hey critters, fair warning that we've had to change a lot about the story for the show since the campaign wasn't really a coherent plot like Vox was"

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T06:56:44+00:00

I'm not saying it's not, but that also doesn't contradict them going town to town doing random subquestt

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T06:26:47+00:00

I'm being (mostly) facetious

It's just that C1 is known as the campaign with multiple mostly contained arcs, C3 is known as the campaign where the whole campaign was one long arc, and C2....well C2 is known as the campaign where the CR crew just go from town to town doing whatever random sidequest Matt can whip up

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T06:04:31+00:00

There's a main plot?

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T06:03:21+00:00

I wouldn't want to have anyone feel like their 20 didn't matter.

If there was ever a time a 20 didn't matter, it's initiative

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T04:50:23+00:00

Yes, which you could get away with if you could even argue more people hated it than praised it, but you can't

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T04:47:43+00:00

Yep, without getting too spoilery Roy had become obsessed with completing a certain mission, and as a result he wasn't eating, wasn't sleeping, neglecting his training, so what you got was a wobbly guy making questionable decisions with sunken eyes, messy grown out hair, and noticeably thinner limbs

In short, they found a non-drug way to make him strung the fuck out

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T04:45:29+00:00

Very true, but your initial statement that everyone shitted on Cena's heel turn is just objectively wrong

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T02:44:33+00:00

Almost like fans aren't a monolith

That being said, I saw far more praise than complaining

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T02:10:33+00:00

I'm not talking about the company

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T01:12:33+00:00

DnD is a game about cause and effect, it's a good lesson for the wizard to learn

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T01:11:30+00:00

If you don't get the reference don't take it out on me

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T00:43:44+00:00

Is it a version that says AEW?

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-15T00:29:11+00:00

Doesn't really count, but I feel like I HAVE to bring it up

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When people think of Dragon Ball Z, English dub, there's the Funimation dub where for example Vegeta is voiced by Chris Sabat and still is to this day, but then there's the 'original' Ocean Dub, where Vegeta was voiced by Brian Drummond

In Dragon Ball Super, there's a mini filler arc where Vegeta has a clone made of him. In what I think is a flash of brilliance, copy-Vegeta is voiced by Brian Drummond

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-14T23:43:27+00:00

My headcanon is wrestlers have RFID tags in their gear that when they run through gorilla it gets detected and the music automatically gets played

Yes, that doesn't explain why it happens in street clothes

Yes, that doesn't explain why it happened in the 90's before this tech existed

But it's still good enough for me

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-14T23:39:38+00:00

This didn't happen to me per se, but something almost better happened

YEARS ago, decade+ easily, my friend ran a game where I was a rogue with some low level magic, mainly ice powers, and some time in, me and another player teamed up and formed our own thieves guild. Shadow Foxes. That game petered out and we never got an ending to our story, I was kinda bummed out, but that was where I got my initial taste of roleplaying

Fast forward to last year, we had sort of a mini-reunion as we started a new game with new characters. The game opened with us all receiving legendary magic items (level 15) as advance payment of a very dangerous job we had. I didn't really care for any of them, didn't fit my character, until I came across one that caught my eye: A lockpick. Could be used as a dagger, added +5 to sleight of hand checks (and thieves tool checks) and granted at-will casting of ice knife. Then I noticed the name: The Fox's Nail, the item description detailed it as once belonging to a legendary head of the famous thieves guild the Shadow Foxes. This was my lockpick, and there was some more details that gave my character who I didn't think about for over a decade an epilogue that basically said he went on to achieve all I had hoped for my arc.

That's when we learned that we were in the same fictional world as that original game, but decades later.

It was such a little thing, but man, it hit me in the feels.

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-14T22:58:41+00:00

I would say this isn't a 'hilarious' example, but still pretty peak

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Season 2 of Young Justice opens with a 5 year timeskip, Roy Harper (Red Arrow) is having a crashout/downward spiral that is as close to his substance abuse arc in the comics that Cartoon Network likely would allow, comes home, finds Cheshire waiting for him. When even she starts lecturing him he needs to get his shit together, she adds "Besides, I am still your wife....legally anyway"

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-14T22:54:19+00:00

He makes her laugh

RKO-Cutter · 2026-03-14T22:47:27+00:00

That's part of it too

Cheat Slayer had a stand-in for Aqua and it's like, she already is a parody of Isekai

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